GMP in COPYING.Ylonen

Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org
Wed Dec 13 16:53:28 EST 2000


> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:47:26PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> > > COPYING.Ylonen contains:
> > > [ GMP is now external. No more GNU licence. ]
> > > 
> > > I don't see how GMP is linked in at all.  rms asked me to look into this, 
> > > because this might constitute a license conflict.
> >  
> > GMP isn't used at all. OpenSSH uses the OpenSSL library for its bignum
> > functions.
> 
> Thanks!  It might be worth changing that to say "is no longer used" to 
> make it clearer.

Tough cookies.  I don't think we'll change that.  Next time, read the source.






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